Fast, accurate and arbitrage-free volatility surface fitting remains a core challenge for options desks. Fabrice Deschâtres presents convex volatility interpolation (CVI), a framework that casts the ...

What if every person you meet, including those you’ve yet to cross paths with, is quietly tethered to you by a single thread you can't even see? That's the premise of the invisible string theory. The ...

The Mummers string band competition, which was canceled on New Year's Day because of high winds, has been rescheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, at Lincoln Financial Field. The event will still be ...

Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major problem in algebraic geometry. Other mathematicians had their doubts. Now he says ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. We present an improved method for determining guess structures for transition state ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called "Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?" Forty-five years later, ...

According to film buffs and movie directors, motion smoothing is the worst. Even streaming services don't like it. When "Roma" was released on Netflix, the company urged viewers to turn off motion ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: String theory—the idea that particles are not point-like, but instead one-dimensional strings—is a popular theoretical framework that attempts to ...

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